Register for liquid-dispensing apparatus



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UNITED s'TA-T-Es 'WI'LLTAI L. IABDEN, or NEw Yonx. N. if., AssiGNoR To NEPTUNE METER com- A TANTI', or NEW Yoan, N. Y., A conroiiATIoN or NEW JERSEY.

REGISTER. Eon LIoUTD-EISPENSING APPARATUS. y

Application led November 29,` 1924. 'Serial No. 752,837.

To t concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM L.` MARnEN,-

l a citizen of the United States, residing in -which itis mounted and that such shifting theborou h of Queens, of-the city and State of New and useful Improvements in Registers 'for Liquid-Dispensing Apparatus, Apf which the following is a specification, reference 4being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part hereof.

This invention relates to devices by@ which thequantity pf a liquid dispensed, as at a gasoline filling station, is indicated to the purchaser in units or fractions of units of volumejor multiples thereof, while registration is also made, if desired, ofthe total volume delivered. The improved registering mech lnism has been designed with particular re eren'ce to its use in connection with a metering device through which the liquid lowsian'd rovis'ion hastherefore been made whereby t e indicating or register face can be vturned in any'direction with reference tothe position of the metering device so that the indicationcan be read easily by the person concerned. The invention will be described more fully hereinafter with reference tothe accompanying drawing in which it is illustrated and in which- Figure 1 is a view in side elevationof the registering devices, the casing of such devices. and the casing of the upper portion of/the metering device being shown in s ection. i y f Figure 2' is a view of the registering mechanism in elev tion as seen f5 right hand in Figu e 1, with the casing in vertical section. f

In the embodiment of the invention l lustrated in the drawing there is shown at a a portion of the casing of a disc meter of well known construction with which the iinproved' registering devices are associated and from which they are driven through a shaft b which is-in engagement with the metering mechanism to berotated thereby. The shaft b is mounted in bearings in a framerc which receivesand supportsy the registering mechanism. A casing d encloses the re 'stering' mechanism and supports Aa dial d for co-oper-ation with the pointers or indicator hands hereinafter referred to,

It is desirable that 'the dial shall be capable of being changed in position according to the point from which it is to be read and ork, have invented certain new,

rom the therefore that Ythe registering mechanism and its casing shall. be capable of being shifted with respect to the meter casing on shall be accomplished without affecting thil 0` which the flange d? ofthe casing (l is seated.

Bolts Z3 are threaded into the flange d from below and receive,` between their heads and the flange, sleeves d* which arc notched to engage Ithe 'undercut `flange oi'v rima. Upon loosening the bolts da slightly the casing d can be turned in one vdirection or the other and then secured in adjusted position by/tightening the bolts. It will be seen that unless provision is made to prevent it the registering mechanism might be in]ured 1f the casing d 1s rotated in one direction or that, if the casing is rotated in the. opposite direction, thev registering mechanism might be actuated without the` passage of liquid through the metering device. To make it possible to rotate the casing d without such undesirable results the shaft b, through which the registering mechanism is actuated, has mounted frictionallyfthereon, as between a fixed hub b2 and a friction spring b", a driving gear b which meshes with a driven pinion e on the driving shaft e of the registering mechanism, such driving` shaft being mounted in suitable bearings in the frame c eccentrically with respect to the shaft b which is concentric with the casings a and d. Therefore, when the casing cZ is rotated with re' spect to theicasing a, the gear b" will be `rotated upon the, shaft b, through its engagement by the pinion e, andthe registering mechanism will not be a tuated nor any undue strainput upon it, y reason of such rotation of the casing together with the en closed registering mechanism. r Y The shaft e', through a worm and worin gear indicated at e2, drives a totalizing register of ordinary construction indicated at f, by which the total number of units of voldirection is prevented. In front ofthe dial al the shaft L carries the unit pointer or indicator hand h which makes afcomplete revolution for each unit of volume of liquid which passes through the metering' indicating by its position also a fractional part of the unit the protecting glass d2 a vknob or handle h2 by which the unit pointer can be turned back to zero position after each operation.

I claim as my invention: l. In a regulator for liquid dispensing `apparatus having a meter, a casing forthe meter and registering devices adapted to be 55, of the casings Without operating the meter -2 mechanism or the registering devices.

l 2.' In a register for liquid dispensing apparatus having a meter casing, registering device v volume. The shaft h also carries in front ofthe dia and in front 0fthe devices adapted to be actuated by ,the meter mechanism, and a casing for the registering devices rotatably mounted on the meter casing, the said casings. having co-acting langes, bolts engaging the flange of one of the casings, and notched sleeves interposed between the heads of the bolts and the flange of the other casing and engaging said last mentioned flan e.

- 3. In a register o'r liquid dispensing app-- paratus having 1 a meter casing, registering devices adapted to beactuated by the meter mechanism, and a casing for the registering devices rotatably mounted on the meter cas'- I v ing, means to secure the two casings together in relatively adjusted position, ting shaft between the meter mechanism and the registering devices and positioned concentrically with respect to both casings, a

' driving shaft positioned eccentrically, a pinion on the driving shaft, and a frictionally driven gear mounted on the transmitting yshaft and engaging said pinion.

a transmit- This specification signed .this-19th dayot' November, A. D., 1924.

W'ILLIAM'L. MARDEN, 

